| Pluto's Judgement Day | |
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| Directed by | David Hand |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Don Brodie Pinto Colvig Walt Disney Lee Millar Clarence Nash Billy Bletcher[1][2] The Rhythmettes Billy Sheets[3] Homer Hall male quartet |
| Music by | Frank Churchill Leigh Harline |
| Animation by | Dick Lundy Hamilton Luske Fred Moore Bill Roberts Bob Wickersham Clyde Geronimi Ward Kimball Hardie Gramatky[4] |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Pluto's Judgement Day is aMickey Mousedark comedyhorror cartoon released theatrically in 1935. Although labeled a Mickey cartoon, the main star isPluto.[6] It was the 78th short film in theMickey Mouse series to be released, the seventh of that year.[7]
Pluto chases akitten through the forest, a mud puddle, a window, and right intoMickey's lap, causing a mess in Mickey's house. Mickey angrily scolds Pluto for his mean and nasty behavior towards cats, warning him that he will have "plenty to answer for on (his)judgement day" if he keeps this up. Mickey then goes off to wash the kitten while Pluto falls asleep in front of the fireplace.
While asleep, aphantom cat goads Pluto into chasing him, over ahallucinatory Mickey's objections, and Pluto is lured into a forest of evil cat-like trees, and a cat head-shaped mountain trap, where he slides down into a pit, whereshackles magically chain him and he is put on trial as the cats declare him "Public Enemy No. 1" for all his crimes against cats. All the cats, whom Pluto has ever tormented, testify against him: A tubby cat speaks of being picked on and chased by Pluto because he (the cat) was fat and was flattened by asteamroller while running away from Pluto, a psychiatric patient is wheeled out to demonstrate thepost-traumatic stress disorder which he developed from Pluto's barking, and three youngblackface kittens sing of how Pluto stole their meals and drowned theirUncle Tom (as Tom'snine ghosts briefly appear) in a river. Pluto is inevitably found guilty and is about to be burned alive by being tied in a seat and lowered into flames by the angry cats, when he wakes up after a hotcinder from the fireplace strikes his rear. Pluto rushes off into the tub to ease the burn, and Mickey, washing the kitten, urges the two to make up, which each one readily does much to Mickey's delight.
The short was released on December 4, 2001, onWalt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color.[16]
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